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[Huey]

So as the title says, I have started to play around with modding in order to be able to make more creatures war animals. I found the [TRAINABLE] tag, which did pretty much what I was hoping for it to do, however... I can't assign warhorses to anyone. I was able to assign war-wolves to my crew, and the horse did get trained, but now I am kind of stumped.

On a related note, I added the [USE_ANY_PET_RACE] tag to the dwarf entity, so that I could more quickly test things, and I got some interesting embark choices such as GCS   :eek:  Is there an easier way to get more animals on the embark list? I don't necessarily need uber pets, but I would like more variety on embarking. Like taking polar bears with me in a glacier map, etc.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[Impending Doom]

Haven't tried it myself, but using the [COMMON_DOMESTIC] tag will probably make them available on embark.

[Huey]

Another question. What does the mount tag do? Can I use mounts in my games, or is it for sieging armies?

[Impending Doom]

Currently, the [MOUNT] tag does nothing. Toady has it in there as a sort of preliminary framework for adding a mount system later.

[Toady One]

It is used during sieges, if they have something available.

[Lyrax]

I like to give dwarves the Subterranean creatures.  Then make GCS's into trainable mounts.  > )

They're freaking expensive, but this gives me something to work for in the endgame.

EDIT: To answer the OP, adding COMMON_DOMESTIC to different creatures will, indeed work.  Adding tags to the Dwarf entity like USE_GOOD_ANIMALS or USE_CAVE_ANIMALS might get you more variety as well, but I'm still testing this, and cannot confirm it.

[ April 11, 2008: Message edited by: Lyrax ]

[Boatmurderer]

Oh hell, I just had a scary thought... elves mounted on unicorns and giant eagles.

Try that siege on for size!

[Lyrax]

Also, to answer the OP, as far as I know you should be able to assign a war horse/spider/bat/unicorn to anyone, but they'll be pulled from the pool of war creatures at random.

Or rather, you can assign anyone a war creature, and there's a chance it'll be the one you want.